Category: Suing Oil Companies

Positive Future #113 (Feature photo – Peter Tabuns– CCA SA 2.0 Generic) The Province of Ontario, Canada has 14.3 million people – roughly 40 percent Canada’s population. The Province is home to the city of Toronto, one of the largest metropolitan areas in North America. Recently, the Energy Collective published a story on Peter Tabuns of the Ontario Provincial Parliament. Tabuns is introducing legislation called “Liability for Climate-Related Harms Act” in the Ontario, Canada Parliament. The law would allow individuals and government to sue fossil fuel companies for climate-related damages like flooding or wildfires and force those companies to pay for not only damages, but infrastructure needed to protect against…